Improved paint-bbuse



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JOHN S. WHITEHOF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. Letters Patent No. 64,607, datedMeg/ 7, 1867.

IMPROVED PAINT-BRUSH.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I, JOII'N VW'IIITE, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have vinvented u new and usefulImprovement in Paint-Brushes, and do hereby declare the same to be fullydescribed in the following specification, and represented intheaccompanying drawings, of Which- Figure 1 is al side view.

Figure 2, a. longitudinal section; und

Figure 3 u. transverse section of n. paint-brush provided with myinvention.

In such drawings A is a. paint-brush of the ordinary kind, of which a isthe stoel( or handle, and b tliemass of bristles. The collection ofbristles is enveloped by a. metallic tube7 B, formed so as to t or screwuponl the binding wires or threads c of the bristles, und to extendtherefrom down upon the 'muss in manner as repre-4 sented. This tubeform with a.series of parallel slits, (Zd al, going Vthrough it, eachbeing arranged so us to extend partially'sround it, there being a.narrow port-ion, e, between eeeh two grooves. Or, instead of soeonstructing the tube B, it muy be composed of a. series of short tubesof like diameter, arranged end to end, und connected at intervals byshortjoiniugs, suehes may be en-sily eut esnnder with n. knife. Thepurpose of this 'construction of the Acup-tube is to enable portions ofit to be easily removed, as occasion may require, as the bristles muybecome Worn.

I claim the improved paint-brush, metallic cap-tube B.' marde insectional parts, united and readily separable as and for the purpose ashereinbefore described.

JOHN S. WHITE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

